Well, I made it to midnight. I watched 2 minutes of the Ryan Seacrest thing, realized I didn't know the names of any of the people standing on the stage with him, and switched over to watch "Minions" on Amazon.

Interesting link, creative, thanks for sharing! I saved it to look at more a little later.

I fell asleep in the recliner somewhere around 11:00, and was woken up at midnight by fireworks somewhere nearby. Got up and went to bed.

Fixin' to fry up some corn tortilla triangles, the dip will be a hot layered dip of refried beans, salsa, sour cream, a few different cheeses, and topped with chopped scallions. My brother will be here around noon, and we'll enjoy our chili and tamale dinner around 2ish. I made the jalapeno cheddar corn muffins yesterday evening.

I looked around for TV marathons to amuse us while we eat and chat - so far I've found the usual 'Twilight Zone' on SYFY, 'Gold Rush' on Discovery, and 'Counting Cars' on the History Channel. Bro restores old cars, so I know he'll enjoy the cars one. (Just not for very long, or I'm stealing the remote back) Neither of us are into sports. I'm watching the Rose Parade now while I'm having my coffee.

Happy New Year, everyone!

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Got my etouffé going, will be doing some laundry and just relaxing. Planning a trip to the city tomorrow for some grocery shopping. Also need a sheet of 1/4" plywood for the back of a cabinet I want to use as a pantry. Looking at ceiling lights...

DH went out with one of his boyfriends to watch our beloved Hawkeyes play in the Rose Bowl! Apparently they're not doing so well. Had an exemplary season, but as DH explained to me ad infinitum (meaning I really didn't care) apparently the Hawks played really bad teams, which was why they were 35-1 or something like that.

Gosh are we the only ones who watched the Rose Parade today? I've always loved watching it here at 8 AM live. Spending my whole life in this area, I've never been there in person, but one year we went down to see the beautiful floats parked where we could inspect them for days after the parade.

We've had a lazy day today with me watching old movies by dead people. Love really old movies on Turner Movie Classics. Today it was 1937 "Stage Door".

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